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The Free (At Least Initially) MMO Uberlist V2

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Space Cowboy is by the same folks as Flyff, and 99% sure I heard Space Cowboy is going to be free to play with cashshop (micropayments) just as Flyff is.

Tried Biosfear cause I saw a knight with a gun on the website :roll: Diablo type clone (1 or 2, prolly 1 lol). Very low population... most I've seen on all three servers at once was a combined total of 90 people. Graphics are terrible. 4 races(classes) - Fighter type, Mage type, little winged Summoner things, and humans (which use guns and later flame throwers and missle launchers lol). Got bored by level 70 (out of 220+) and this was during double xp periods to make up for server outages.

Don't know if you want to add that DnD Online (DDO) has a free 7-day trial thing going (I caught it on a banner on the PA mainpage yesterday... kinda disappointed with it... DDO that is).

Blitz 1941 is pretty good if you're looking for a timesink. Cabal Online is in beta phase, but it's also entirely in Korean, no English beta is available. I'm still going in the deep end and trying out. Can't be all that difficult, right? (The average translation doesn't make it any easier anyway.)

I got invited to the closed beta for that new BOTS game from the new Acclaim (Being one of the top posters on the brand manager's blog has its benefits). It's not half bad. Unfortunately, being part of the CB also means being under an NDA, according to the invite; so I can't give any specifics just yet. I might want to get into another of their CB tests in the future, and since Ken's posted here before, he could be watching.

However, if you go sign up at the official site you could still have a chance of getting invited. I'll make a full-blown addition to the list when it hits open beta/goes live, whichever comes first.

Silkroad Online is a very professional MMO. It stands up, and in my opinion surpasses, Lineage II (even though that may not be too difficult). If you like ancient Chinese culture and folklore I definitely reccomend it. The merchant/hunter/thief PvP mechanic is also really cool (I have yet to try it out for myself, however).

Fun factoid: Rakion runs on the Serious engine. The engine behind the original two Serious Sam games.

And yes, it really is quite nifty. You'll find the 'really expensive items unless you pay money' thing applies to a lot of the completely free korean MMOs, but it's a system I like. It means the majority can play for free because the minority are willing to pay cold, hard cash for a helmet +1.

Oh, ACT: Ray Storm is a really rather neat game. 2d mecha deathmatch - side-on view, but free flying movement and a good range of weapons and moves. Very small number of players though. Perhaps a PA rush would be a good idea?

Lol really want to try Rakion, and DL ATC this morning. met a player from canada (just like me!) and her IGN is -Angel- . if u see her in game then watch a match. She's freakin awesome!

Silkroad Online is a very professional MMO. It stands up, and in my opinion surpasses, Lineage II (even though that may not be too difficult). If you like ancient Chinese culture and folklore I definitely reccomend it. The merchant/hunter/thief PvP mechanic is also really cool (I have yet to try it out for myself, however).

It surpasses Lineage II? Silkroad is pretty much an empty grindfest. Success in battle seems to rely half on level and equipment and half on how long you can keep spamming healing items. Quests increasingly consist of killing the same enemy over and over until you pass out from boredom. The skillset you have is incredibly small, and everything dies too quickly to get any sort of group dynamic going. The UI is better than most but still doesn't seem like it would work in a fully commercial game.

Silkroad Online is a very professional MMO. It stands up, and in my opinion surpasses, Lineage II (even though that may not be too difficult). If you like ancient Chinese culture and folklore I definitely reccomend it. The merchant/hunter/thief PvP mechanic is also really cool (I have yet to try it out for myself, however).

It surpasses Lineage II? Silkroad is pretty much an empty grindfest. Success in battle seems to rely half on level and equipment and half on how long you can keep spamming healing items. Quests increasingly consist of killing the same enemy over and over until you pass out from boredom. The skillset you have is incredibly small, and everything dies too quickly to get any sort of group dynamic going. The UI is better than most but still doesn't seem like it would work in a fully commercial game.

Geez, how bad is Lineage II, then?

I've died twice. I've had to use....4 healing items. Maybe. Of course combat relies on your level and equipment, what else would it rely on? Say what you want to but I haven't seen an MMO that doesn't work that way. Until higher levels, grouping doesn't have much of a point. Skillset is actually quite large, but you must have pre-requesits to use them. The UI is on par with many MMORPGs I've seen.

Silkroad Online is a very professional MMO. It stands up, and in my opinion surpasses, Lineage II (even though that may not be too difficult). If you like ancient Chinese culture and folklore I definitely reccomend it. The merchant/hunter/thief PvP mechanic is also really cool (I have yet to try it out for myself, however).

It surpasses Lineage II? Silkroad is pretty much an empty grindfest. Success in battle seems to rely half on level and equipment and half on how long you can keep spamming healing items. Quests increasingly consist of killing the same enemy over and over until you pass out from boredom. The skillset you have is incredibly small, and everything dies too quickly to get any sort of group dynamic going. The UI is better than most but still doesn't seem like it would work in a fully commercial game.

Geez, how bad is Lineage II, then?

I think Lineage 2 is widely considered to be one of the worst MMO's out there because of how absolutely horrible grindfest it is. Not to mention, losing levels because you got killed by another player is always a retarded design choice. But, I guess thats what you can expect from Koreans.

I have been trying to get the DJ Max game running and all I am getting is thrown around in circles. I've created a log in, downloaded the client, and installed the program. Now the program just throws me back to the website with no explnation. I realy want to get this game running, any help woud be fantastic.

I played Rakion a month ago just to see how it went. For some reason, I have huge connection issues with that game (and only with that game as Gunbound ran perfectly for me). I'd either drop in the middle of a match or get booted as I entered one. In any case, I wouldn't be able to reconnect for a long time.

Other than that, the game suffers from a handicap gap. The brackets are in levels of 10. So kinda like WoW. Would you run into a PvP match with a lv 30 against a crew of lv 39s?

I don't believe the CoV trial is active anymore... anybody else know of another we can pass off? I did the CoV trial and loved it... picked it up. Hopefully more friends can try it if we can locate another =)

Quick question. I'm at work right now and the boss just recently made me head of the PC department so I'm trying to shape things up. Right now I'm actually putting into the system all the PC games that we can not buy back namely MMO's at the moment. So if you guys wouldn't mind helping a brotha out, since it would take too long to list all the MMOs that you can't rebuy could somebody help just list the ones that you CAN? Also on a quick sidenote is FFXI for 360 resaleable?

Quick question. I'm at work right now and the boss just recently made me head of the PC department so I'm trying to shape things up. Right now I'm actually putting into the system all the PC games that we can not buy back namely MMO's at the moment. So if you guys wouldn't mind helping a brotha out, since it would take too long to list all the MMOs that you can't rebuy could somebody help just list the ones that you CAN? Also on a quick sidenote is FFXI for 360 resaleable?

If it's anything like the PC version than the answer is no. I have no first hand knoledge of the 360 version though.

Planeshift: Still a ways to go before being publicly viable. The world is large and there seems like lots to do, but when your avatar floats around in the simplest most unrealistic way, it's hard to feel "involved" in the world. I think I'll pass on this till they tighten up development"

Silkroad Online: Everything about this game seemed promising. Reviews, content, and player comments seemed to make this the prime free MMO on the market. The results? Personally, I don't think this game is viable anymore. I think I finally saw the downside to a free MMO. A wold full of thousands of "AFK" sellers and such. Player help was essentially nonexistant, which lends to a not so player friendly community. And I've still yet to figure out if it was my client or not, but the framerate was abolsolutely terrible, and I can run HL2 and a good framerate. Nothing fixed the framerate save from dropping all levels down to low and playing in a resolution of 800x600. To me, there's something wrong with the game if that's the case, not my comp, when I haven't had to run a game in that resolution since my DOS games in Win95

Rakion: I kinda fell onto this one a little later, forgetting about it while looking for a good free MMO and stressing through Silkroad for a bit. Finally installed this yesterday and got things going. All in all, I think I've found the good free MMO I was looking for. While not a MMO in the "WoW" "Guild Wars" sort of way, more in an MMORPG version of Jedi Outcast multiplayer vein, I've found the arcadey type play pretty fun. And ranging in the different character types, and the ability to level up over time gives this arcade mutiplayer game a little more replayability than somthing like Jedi Knight's online. Admittedly, I was a little disappointed to learn there wasn't more MMO aspect to it, and that it is basically a RPG-esque deathmatch game, it does add more interesting elements than the other deathmatch games I've been playing, so it's got some points there.

While I wish Silkroad was more playable as it seems to have the most robust MMO experience for the price (free), personally Rakion has hit home as far as actual playability and fun factor. I'm contemplating trying out a couple other of the MMO games like Xiah, Martial Heroes, or Gate of Heavens, but for now I think I'll actually have fun with Rakion.

Just a little something I feel you should update about Saga of Ryzom: They've changed the free trial, instead of the 7-day trial previously mentioned, they now have an unlimited free trial (though restricted to only the noob island. You need to register as a paying customer to access the main game.)